A follow-up to the grand success of Demy’s first musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort unfurls an unabashedly romantic bouquet of song and dance upon a flowing field of pastel. Catherine Deneuve and her sister Françoise Dorléac star as musical twins searching for love and success just as a fair comes to town and a medley of strangers convenes in the charming port town. With a tip of his chapeau to the golden era of the Hollywood musical—including the very American presence of Gene Kelly and West Side Story’s George Chakiris—Demy allows the search for true love to guide each story thread and that ideal sweetness and thrill to giddily overwhelm the screen. Criticized upon its release for its outrageously saccharine themes, the bubbly film has risen to prominence in recent years perhaps precisely for its meticulously designed, infectious spectacle of what it feels like to be madly happy and in love.